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Today, Restopolis is a huge governmental administration that has become a key player in education for sustainable development in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg serving around three million meals in school and university canteens every year.
Today, the administration is running 114 restaurants and cafeterias in public high schools, on the campuses of the University of Luxembourg as well as in six daycare facilities and four boarding schools. Restopolis counts a total of 72.000 potential guests.
The meals are prepared on site by chefs and their teams using a maximum of local and local organic products. 67% of the products used in canteens come from local producers, 17% are provided by local organic producers.
Our digital food procurement platform "Supply4Future (S4F)" involves the use of software to capture, consolidate and manage all of our food data and information related to procurement in such a way, that local and local organic products will be automatically favourized.
During the first year, 13 school canteens take part in this initiative in order to gather valuable experiences for eco-responsible food purchasing for school and university canteens. The ultimate launch of the platform is scheduled for September 2024 by the way of the national Public Procurement Portal. At that moment all canteens will be supplied through S4F.
At the end, S4F will maximize the use of organic, local and sustainable products in school and university canteens, while respecting the requirements of the law on public procurement.
All orders for food products will be subject to a public tender issued by Restopolis. S4F will make it easier for a maximum number of producers or suppliers, regardless of the size of their business, to access public tenders, i.e. a kind of mini-competitions, for school and university catering. It will further lead to a completely electronic and objective attribution process awarding tenders for the purchase of these products.
The innovation of this platforms consists in the fact that the attribution criteria will now be defined in such a way as to favour the purchase of sustainable products that protect the environment. The attribution criteria are as follows: 60 - 70% sustainability (Organic and short ways), 30-40% the price.
The new platform also supports the objectives of the national action plan for organic farming PAN-BIO 2025.
We launch a public tender for every food purchase, by type of product, by region and by canteen, open to all producers and suppliers. Invitations to public tenders are published on the platform and previously selected producers and suppliers will be able to respond.
To ensure a maximum of neutrality, products are evaluated exclusively electronically according to a set of pre-defined attribution criteria. In case of insufficient quantities of a product from one single producer or supplier, S4F will automatically select one or more additional suppliers according to the attribution criteria. One single call for tenders may therefore result in several orders.
The selection criteria for products are designed to encourage the purchase of eco-responsible products that protect the environment and the climate. Accordingly, two sustainable development criteria. i.e. distance and organic farming, will be given substantially more weight than the price.
Once the offer has been determined according to the attribution criteria, the order is automatically placed and the canteen manager is informed via the platform. After each order, the result of the evaluation process and the positioning of each offer are communicated in full transparency to all participants in the call for tenders.
S4F is understood as a meeting point for producers, suppliers and Restopolis where the actors mentioned above can work together to find solutions for further development of organic and local-organic production. This platform also provides information about what products are needed for the school and university canteens. Producers are encouraged to submit their proposals for products that are not yet grown in Luxembourg.
The digital platform "Supply4Future (S4F)" is part of this program as we believe in innovative digital solutions to improve sustainable school meal programmes in the country.
Health, nutrition and nature are very closely linked. That’s why we opted for the slogan “Let’s eat more sustainable food”. We want to advocate for a more sustainable canteen trhough the implementation of "6 RestoGoals".
The brand "food4future" stands for the continuation of advocacy and sensibilisation campaigns in schools, encouraging active involvement and feedback from schoolchildren and youth, on sustainable nutrition and food systems. Furthermore, we want to increase the provision of free school meals, ensuring access to nutritious food for all.
An important driver of this goal is the introduction of products from nearby agriculture by 2025 in collective catering establishments. The government intends to ensure a model role, starting with state-subsidized collective catering, where 50% of the products will come from Luxembourg agriculture, 2/5 of which will be from organic farming and 3/5 from local agriculture, with priority given to products from in-conversion farming.
The future of our planet will depend on the way we eat. To fight against climate change, we change the composition of our food offer and promote vegetarian and vegan meals. Thus, our menus become more balanced and eco-responsible with as much organic, nearby and seasonal products as possible and a substantial reduction of the share of animal products on our plates.
We promote 0 km food and short distance purchasing to avoid the environmental impacts of large distance transportation of food supplies.
The best packaging waste is the one we don't produce! We educate our guests to modify their consumption before the production of waste, thus helping us to preserve the environment. We combat plastic pollution in school canteens by e.g. establishing drink fountains and avoiding single use packaging.
Food waste begins long before the trash can - from the time a product is grown, through every stage of processing, transportation, and marketing to our plates, half of the food produced in the world is thrown away. We combat food waste in school canteens by e.g. adapting meal offers and giving leftover food for free.
We scale up the coordination with relevant national stakeholders, agricultural and farmers associations, academic and research instructions, young farmers and students to continuously improve sustainable school meal programmes and food production in the country.